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The wife of Lampre’s Raimondas Rumsas lost another round in her ongoing legal battle to be released from prison as a court in Grenoble, France, rejected a request to end her detention that began when she was arrested for possession of drugs in July. Edita Rumsas, wife of the third-place finisher in this year’s Tour de France, has been held in custody at Bonneville women's prison for more than six weeks on suspicion of provoking, inciting and offering drugs for consumption. The 28-year-old mother-of-three was picked up in the French Alps on July 29 - the day the Tour finished - with

USA Cycling named the winners of the first-annual Center of Excellence Awards on Friday. The new program is designed to recognize outstanding cycling clubs around the country with cash awards to assist in their structural development. Nine clubs across the country were selected for this honor, and each will receive a cash award of up to $2000.The Center of Excellence winners met certain criteria with respect toorganization, business management and athlete development programs forjuniors and under-23 athletes. The clubs provided evidence of long-termbusiness plans and solid structures for

The final major tour of the 2002 season gets underway Saturday in Valencia, Spain. The Vuelta a España features shorter, livelier stages than the Giro or Tour, but remains a hotly contested battle nonetheless.This year's 3144-km (1949-mile), 21-stage race features three time trials and four very difficult climbing stages. The climber that can defend in the races against the clock will likely come out on top.The 2002 Vuelta features eight flats stages, 10 stages with medium to difficult mountains, including four summit finishes which will likely decide the race. There's no opening

Nestor Evancevich, founder and principle officer of American BicycleRacing, died in his sleep during the night of Wednesday, September 4. ABR is a national membership organization that promotes the sport ofbicycle racing and was the first of a series of organizations to successfully break away from the sport's national governing body, USA Cycling and focus almost exclusively on grassroots cycling. During the 1980's, Evancevich was instrumental in the rapid growth ofbicycle racing in Illinois and the greater midwest. He became the Illinois USCF District Rep in 1985 when there were

Simoni and Casagrande want to finish this one. (file photo)

World champion Oscar Freire won’t be going to CSC-Tiscali after all,according to reports in the Spanish sports daily AS. Freire and the Danish team have been going back and forth for weeks and seemedpoised to sign a two-year deal. But according to AS, Freire sent an e-mailto Johnny Weltz declining the offer so the two-time world champion couldconsider others. Reportedly deals from Quick Step, worth more money and forthree years, and iBanesto.com are on the table. Banesto only has one yearleft with its title sponsor and seems to looking to reduce its roster nextyear, but a chance to grab

Freire -- (file photo)

Germany’s Telekom team is on the verge of signing Giro d’ Italia winnerPaolo Savoldelli, team manager Walter Godefroot said Tuesday.Godefroot said the team has also offered a new contract to 1997 Tourde France winner Jan Ullrich, who is sitting out a six-month banafter he tested positive for amphetamines in June. Godefroot said Savoldelli, of the Italian Index-Alexia team, has agreedterms with Telekom. "All we need is his signature," he said.The 29-year-old Italian is likely to be called to work for former Tourwinner Ullrich once and if he officially returns to competition on March23, 2003.It

A letter from Frischy: I'll keep trying

The investigation into charges that the U.S. Postal team of Lance Armstrong used banned drugs during the 2000 Tour de France has been scrapped for lack of evidence, legal sources said Monday. The investigation was opened in November 2000, after French television reporters revealed film of team staff disposing of medical waste at a highway rest stop, prompting rumors that Armstrong's powerful team had won the Tour for him by using illegal substances. But investigators found it impossible to identify any doping agents used in blood samples given by members of the US Postal team and it had

Dahle takes the cross country in Kaprun.

Dunlap strugles up one of the slick climbs.

One of the brutal creek crossings.

Nothstein

Uhl's win was close

Green

Absalon wins again.

Hesjedal has seen better days.

Naef was the surprise of the day.

The women's four-cross podium.

Emmeline Ragot

LeBauve takes the win over Massie

Nothstein and Oelkers and paired up against the Prime Alliance of Carney and Pearce in the Madison

Reed tookthe first-ever first women’s keirin national

Pearce and Carney in the Masdison

Sam Hill

Vouilloz checks out his latest hardware.

Chausson explains her win.

Racing was televised live.

Peat looks on as Nico wins again.

Vouilloz's machine.

Lopes celebrates with his family.

Italy's Tony Longo came across in third.

Rowney and his protege.

Tammy Thomas (file photo)

Tammy Thomas (file photo)

Though the team has already been using its time trial bikes unofficially,CSC-Tiscali has formalized its relationship with Canadian bike manufacturerCervélo and signed a full sponsorship agreement for the 2003 season.The Danish team will be using the full roster of Cervélo bikes onthe road, in time-trials and on the track next season.Cervélo is regarded as one of the most innovative bike manufacturersthe sport has seen in years. This innovation and a focus on performancehas been the strength behind its continued success, initially in the timetrial market and more recently in the road

The United States Anti-Doping Agency announced Friday that a three-member arbitration panel has ruled that track sprinter Tammy Thomas has committed a doping violation, her second in two years, and ordered the 32-year-old Colorado Springs resident be banned from competition for life. The three member panel of the American Arbitration Association (AAA)/North American Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) found sufficient evidence to support a positive doping test involving the prohibited substance norbolethone.

He's got a smile on his face ... Really.

Lowe and Mathison are 2002 world champs

The Russian Trofimov was second in the junior men's race.

VeloNews.com welcomes your letters. If you run across something in the pages of VeloNews magazine or see something on VeloNews.com thatcauses you to want to write us, dropus a line.Please include your full name and home town. By submitting mail tothis address, you are consenting to the publication of your letter.Cipo's back. Oh happy dayEditors;Great News! (See "World'sfastest retiree turns in world's shortest 'retirement'")The cycling world needs Cipo’. We al hope to see him in the Tour nextyear and hope to see him win more races in 2003 including a new recordat the

After more than two days on his bike, Boulder, Colorado’s Chris Grealish won the grueling 750-mile Boston-Montreal-Boston ultra-marathon event. The one-time Colorado race promoter has returned to the saddle in style taking the race, which runs through Massachusetts, Vermont, New York, Canada and back, in 53 hours and 48 minutes. Grealish attacked early – at least early in ultra-marathon terms – sliding off the front of the field just 50 miles into the race. The owner of Boulder/Denver Couriers delivery service continued through the first 579 miles of the race without a sleep break. After a

The Kaprun course has lots of places to pick up speed.

Giove had the best day of the Americans, qualifying 2nd.

Aussie Nathan Rennie gets some airtime.

Making the trip to the top of the downhill course.

Prime Qualifier -- Little did the Prime Alliance squad know that this was their gold-medal performance.

Carney and Nothstein finished 1-2 in the points race

Lindenmuth took Uhl in two.

Beers

He’s back. You just knew it wasn’t gonna last. Slightly more than a month after angrily announcing his “retirement” from cycling, Mario Cipollini has announced he will come out of said retirement in time for the Vuelta a España and the upcoming world championships in Belgium. Cipollini, a fearsome sprinter who won the Milan-San Remo World Cup and six stages at the Giro d’Italia this season, announced during the Tour de France he was hanging up his bike. He bitterly slammed the race organizers for not according one of the wildcards for the race to his Acqua e Sapone team despite his

It's all about the stripes -- Not zebra, not tiger, Cipo' wants rainbow stripes!

ANCHOR - Sydor had ample time to celebrate.

Deutsche Telekom confirmed Tuesday that Australian Cadel Evans has signedwith the team for next season. The 25-year-old two-time winner of mountainbiking’s World Cup made a great first impression in his debut season asa road pro with Mapei-Quick Step.Evans and his teammates learned in July that long-time sponsor Mapeiis pulling out of the sport. However, on the heels of his impressive performanceat the Giro d’Italia, including a heroic day in the maglia rosa, Evanshas been a hot property.Evans’s signing, along with that of Flèche Wallone winner MarioAerts and 23-year-old Christian Werner,

First look: New XTR tubeless wheelset

First look: New XTR tubeless wheelset

CSC-Tiscali’s Tyler Hamilton said his season is over after breaking hisright collarbone and suffering two deep cuts in a bad crash during a trainingride Sunday before the GP Eddy Merckx time trial race in Belgium.Hamilton said he might have also suffered a mild concussion, something doctors checked for on Monday.“I look like bin Laden,” Hamilton told VeloNews on Monday justmoments after he left a hospital in Brussels where he underwent an MRI. “My arm’s in a sling. I have bandages. I look like bin Laden, but I’ll be okay.”Hamilton suffered a horrible crash Sunday while warming up on the

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was...Okay, I'll start from the beginning. I ride both road and mountain bikesprofessionally and recently I had my sanity tested by both. Here's my story.There's this race called the Saturn Cycling Classic, you may have heard ofit. It is 140 miles long and has 14,000 feet of high altitude climbing.It goes from Boulder to Breckenridge, Colorado, over seven mountain passesand up and down some pretty tore-up roads. So torn up, in fact, that atone point you actually change from a road bike to mountain bike and

One of the best teams in the history of mountain bike racing will not be returning for 2003. After nine years together, automaker Volvo and bikemaker Cannondale have announced the end of the Volvo-Cannondale racing team. According to Cannondale vice president of marketing Scott Montgomery, Volvo was the driving force behind the demise of the team. "I think Volvo has become a part of a large entity with lots of different directional requests," said Montgomery of the car company, which was bought by the Ford Motor Corporation in January of 1999. "There seems to be a contingent there

England’s Jeremy Hunt sprinted to the biggest win of his career Sundayin the GP de Plouay, charging to the head of a field dominated by riders from English-speaking countries in the French race deep in the heart of Brittany. Hunt, 28, edged Australians Stuart O’Grady (Credit Agricole) and BadenCooke (FDJeux.com) in a bunch sprint in front of a raucous crowd undersunny summer skies. American Fred Rodriguez (Domo) finished fifth in one of France’s mostimportant one-day races on the calendar. “I stayed in the pack all day hoping it would come down to a sprint,”Hunt told French television. “I